It's been March Madness this week in the library; our annual team foul-shooting contest. We use a masking tape "basketball" that encloses four sheets of the New York Times. Fifteen feet from our foul line sits a regulation ACS waste basket butted up against a nonfiction end-cap. Each member of a three-person team get 10 shots. We log the results into our spread sheet, and post the results. So far, the overall average for forty-two teams is 35.35%.
More importantly, it is a bit of fun to be had in the long month of March. It gives me the chance to connect with a many kids I don't get to see often and with many kids for whom this provides a kind of amnesty between us for a new start. The fact that nobody does very well also creates an interesting crowd of onlookers: offering advice, commiseration, and encouragement.
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